[KT]Turn store button on search bar to browser button

[aditya3098]

A very irritating thing in the kindle touch, especially for those who don't use the kindle store, is the store button on the search bar. We could remove this in < 5.1.0 but now that doesn't work. Here's how you turn that button into a browser button (detailed enough for a noob to follow):
First download the attachment, extract it and save "store.png" in /mnt/us i.e the usb drive.
Then ssh into the kindle and enter in:

cd /usr/share/webkit-1.0/pillow/assets/search_bar
mntroot rw
mv store.png store.bak
mv store_active.png store_active.bak
cp /mnt/us/store.png .
cp /mnt/us/store.png ./store_active.png
cd ../..
cd javascripts
cp search_bar.js /mnt/us
mntroot ro

Connect up the USB drive and open up search_bar.js with A PROGRAMMER'S EDITOR, OR ELSE YOU WONT HAVE UNIX LINE BREAKS!!!

After the comments you will find a line (somewhere between line 20-30):

const STORE_ID = 'app://com.lab126.store';

Replace this with:

const STORE_ID = 'app://com.lab126.browser';

Now save this and ssh back into the kindle and enter:

cd /usr/share/webkit-1.0/pillow/javascripts
mntroot rw
mv search_bar.js search_bar.bak
cp /mnt/us/search_bar.js .
mntroot ro
killall cvm

And voila! You have a browser button on the search bar.

[idoit]

I'm using this icon instead and I like it. There are 2 icons one for normal and one for inverted mode. This is best for FW 5.1.0+

I always wanted to have forward button too in the browser.

[aditya3098]

Originally Posted by cscat

I'm using this icon instead, which is more relevant to Webkit logo.

I always wanted to have forward button too in the browser.

Nice, but it's not colour

[geekmaster]

Originally Posted by aditya3098

Nice, but it's not colour

WARNING: Humorous comment may be subject to cultural distortion (no harm intended).
Yes, and you can only view web pages that contain grayscale images.

[geekmaster]

(duplicate post removed)

[aditya3098]

Originally Posted by geekmaster

WARNING: Humorous comment may be subject to cultural distortion (no harm intended).
Yes, and you can only view web pages that contain grayscale images.

No what I ment was the image might not look so good in b/w

[geekmaster]

Originally Posted by aditya3098

No what I ment was the image might not look so good in b/w

That is what gamma, contrast and sharpen functions are for. And of course, you can adjust individual pixels too.

[aditya3098]

Originally Posted by geekmaster

That is what gamma, contrast and sharpen functions are for. And of course, you can adjust individual pixels too.

I am no good at image editing

[diba]

Nice and worked fine. Did all of the stuff in WinSCP, so I had not to switch between USB and SSH. Much more useful now, the button.

[calvin]

Great! this hack works and because I never shop on the kindle.... this button is useful now!

[thomass]

Can I use this button for the Launcher? ( or for the music player ?) I don't use the internet browser that much. (This could also enable Launcher for the all cases.)

[ixtab]

Originally Posted by thomass

Can I use this button for the Launcher? ( or for the music player ?) I don't use the internet browser that much. (This could also enable Launcher for the all cases.)

Music player: probably yes. In fact, I suspect it works for pretty much everything that has an associated URL; it seems to be essentially the same mechanism as described here.

Launcher: no. The launcher directly injects an Action into the menus, so it can't be triggered externally.

[silver18]

Originally Posted by ixtab

Music player: probably yes. In fact, I suspect it works for pretty much everything that has an associated URL; it seems to be essentially the same mechanism as described here.

Yep! I use this to run my app.
Only problem is I can't run a script before running my app (as I do using launcher). That's why I'm studying a way of using LIPC to run that script when my app is launched!

[miguelos]

won't it break further possibility to upgrade firmware ?

[wl.]

do store from menu work like before?